By NICOLE HASEK [email protected] With about 2,100 recreational bikers in Greene County, and about 880 riding at least twice a month, the Iowa Bicycle Coalition has estimated that about $3.1 ...

By BRANDON HURLEY Sports Editor [email protected] @BrandonJHurley The world’s greatest rivalries often lay claim to equally as riveting backstories. In Greene County’s case, victory never sounds ...

By BRANDON HURLEY Sports Editor [email protected] @BrandonJHurley EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was compiled with references to the Smithsonian Magazine, the Des Moines Register, Thegreatautorace.com ...

By BRANDON HURLEY [email protected] EDITOR’S NOTE: For the sake of everyone’s sanity, and time, we have split the County All-Decade teams into two parts. This week, we release the boys’ All-Decade ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] Thirty-seven years ago, newspaper readers — there were more of them then — weren’t so obsessed with whether a paper’s editorial board leaned to the left or to ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] On July 12, when the promotion company known as Iowa Chill sent word on Snapchat that River Farm Recreation west of Jefferson would be hosting a “foam party” on ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] The analogy that’s been used as justification to keep Jefferson’s historic Square intact is that knocking down one building, or two buildings, would be like ...

Global supply chain disruptions, rising prices for foods and farm production inputs, increasing evidence of agriculture’s impact on climate change, and unconscionable numbers of people experiencing ...

The holiday season, stretching from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, has become a time of cheerful overeating and overindulgence. Once the New Year rolls around, the latest diet and exercise crazes ...

Special to the Jefferson Herald Connie Neese spent her entire life as a caregiver, first to her family and then as a nurse. After everything she has seen and done, she often points to the many ways ...

Last Sunday, May 1, would have been my late brother Tom’s 75th birthday. He is much missed by his extended family members and many, many friends. Tom was blessed with many talents, among them an ...

By JIM WYCKOFF Special to The Jefferson Herald Fifty years ago on any snowy winter night in Jefferson, Lincoln Way was a thoroughfare for dozens of brightly colored snowmobiles whizzing through town.